The Hardscrabble of ELM Island

Elijah Kellogg, Jr. (1813-1901) was an American Congregationalist minister, lecturer and author of popular boy's adventure books. While he is best known to students of rhetoric as the author of the once-popular monolog "Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua", he produced several series of books, including the Elm Island series, the Pleasant Cove series and the Whispering Pine Series, and others.